Hunted

De: Meagan Spooner

Narrado por: Saskia Maarleveld, Will Damron

New York Times bestselling author Meagan Spooner spins a thoroughly thrilling Beauty and the Beast story for the modern age, expertly woven with spellbinding romance, intrigue, and suspense that readers won’t soon be able to forget.

Beauty knows the Beast's forest in her bones—and in her blood. After all, her father is the only hunter who’s ever come close to discovering its secrets. So when her father loses his fortune and moves Yeva and her sisters out of their comfortable home among the aristocracy and back to the outskirts of town, Yeva is secretly relieved. Out in the wilderness, there’s no pressure to make idle chatter with vapid baronessas . . . or to submit to marrying a wealthy gentleman. But Yeva’s father’s misfortune may have cost him his mind, and when he goes missing in the woods, Yeva sets her sights on one prey: the creature he’d been obsessively tracking just before his disappearance. The Beast.

Deaf to her sisters’ protests, Yeva hunts this strange creature back into his own territory—a cursed valley, a ruined castle, and a world of magical creatures that Yeva’s only heard about in fairy tales. A world that can bring her ruin, or salvation. Who will survive: the Beauty, or the Beast?

a new angle on an old tale

This writer has successfully reinvigorated a long loved fairy tale. The world woven of words builds from something mundane and easily relatable to a world of magic; a world with it's very own set of rules. This book could have quite easily been drug out over several volumes but I'm heartily glad that the writer kept the story moving along without overburdening the reader with detail that our imaginations are perfectly capable of providing.

Solid but not ground breaking

I enjoyed this audiobook for the performance. The story was mediocre, but it was a decent retelling of the beauty and the beast fairytale.

Storyline

Loved the story. More like a YA novel. Nice twist on old tale. I recommend.

SLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWW

45 minutes in and I can't seem to catch. Sad really, as I wanted to love this story.

One word: LOVE.

I love Disney's original "Beauty and the Beast" and basically grew up on it as a child, so I couldn't walk away from this book without trying it and let me tell you, it did not dissapoint. At certain points in the story I thought I could predict what was to come but then was pleasantly surprised when the author decided to go down a different path.

I took long walks in the snowy forest next to where I live so the setting and ambience really set the mood for me for this book. I finished listening to it in 3 days. THAT ENDING had me weeping, I was not prepared at all. Overall, the story was incredible and exciting, the performance was amazing (the female performance could be slightly improved, however) and I just loved it, 100% recommend.